To the west the town borders the city of Rensselaer from the North Greenbush line to southern tip of the city, then East Greenbush's border is with Albany County town of Bethlehem, the border being in the middle of the Hudson River.
By 1927, when The Atlantic Monthly published his short story Fifty Grand, Hemingway's first two books -- the collection of stories In Our Time (1925) and the novel The Sun Also Rises (1926) -- had already established the twenty-eight-year-old author as a rising literary star on the expatriate scene in Paris.
Critics of the 1970s and 1980s considered Hemingway to be misogynistic and homophobic; by the 1990s his work, including The Sun Also Rises, began to receive critical reconsideration by female scholars.